M-type star · red

Miram

Miram is a red in the constellation Perseus 879 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,528 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,964× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 879 years ago.

879 lybrightness mag 3.77K3Ib comp SB

Also catalogued as Eta Per · HR 834 · HD 17506 · HIP 13268

3,528 K

temperature

3.77

apparent magnitude

1,964× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3Ib comp SB

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

879 years

at light speed from Earth

0.61×

as hot as the Sun

1,964×

the Sun's light output

-3.38

absolute magnitude

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MiramM-type

Sky regionPerseusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.